Since 01.02.2018 I am part of Volocopter GmbH as Senior Flight Control Engineer.

At Volocopter we are building the first manned, fully electric and safe VTOL in the world. We want to make humanity’s dream of flying come true and help modern cities resolve their increasing mobility issues.

What I do in short words:

• Flight Control Laws

• Sensor Data Fusion for State Estimation

• Flight Physics, Flight Mechanics

• Electric Propulsion

• Matlab, Simulink, Python, C, C++, ROS

• ARP4754, DO-178, DO-254, DO-160

• DE, CVE

• Statement of Work, Supplier Management

• System and component level design description and requirements (left side of V&V)

• SC-VTOL, CS-27, CS-29

In WS 2018/2019 I was giving the lecture Introduction to Aerial Robotics at University of Stuttgart.

This lecture is on aerial robotics, i.e., robotic systems that can perform stable flight. From rigid body kinematics and dynamics to motion planning, the lecture covers the most important steps for enabling aerial systems/vehicles for achieving stable and meaningful aerial robotic tasks. This lecture requires sound knowledge on nonlinear differential equations, rigid body dynamics, basics on control theory and hands-on mentality. During the course the following topics will be studied:

• Rigid body kinematics and dynamics of Multirotor Aerial Vehicles (MAVs)

• Position and attitude tracking control

• Differential Flatness of MAVs

• State Estimation and Localization

• Motion Planning

• Aerial Physical Interaction

• Aerial Manipulation

The course is intended for (Master) students having visited lectures focusing on Control Theory, Nonlinear Control Theory and Rigid-Body Dynamics. Moreover, during the course Matlab/Simulink, Python, as well as Robot Operating System (ROS) can/will be used. ROS (Kinetic) will be introduced in the class as well, which will come with the dependency of a Linux-based operating system. Recommendation: Ubuntu 16.04.